Kate Berlant is an actor, stand-up comedian and writer who was profiled by The New York Times as a “magnetic improvisational comic” at the forefront of experimental comedy. Kate was named a New Face at the 2014 Montreal Comedy Festival, and TimeOut LA listed her as a Comic to Watch in 2015. She is one of Comedy Central’s Top Ten Comics to Watch and is one of Variety’s “Ten Comics To Watch for 2015.” Kate frequently tours North America, performing at festivals including Sasquatch, Bumbershoot, Festival Supreme, SXSW, Treasure Island Music Festival, the New York Comedy Festival as well as Montreal’s Just for Laughs. She recently wrapped pilots for Comedy Central, TBS and TruTV and can be seen on Comedy Central’s The Meltdown, Viceland's "Flop House," and SeeSo's "UCB Show." She voices several characters on HBO's Animals as well as Netflix's Bojack Horseman. She wrote, executive produced, and starred in her own episode of Netflix’s original series “The Characters.” She also wrote and stars in an upcoming original Vimeo series along with John Early and director Andy DeYoung. Kate has a residency with her show “Communikate” at UCB Franklin in Los Angeles, where you can see her the fourth Wednesday of every month.http://kateberlant.com/https://www.instagram.com/kateberlant/https://twitter.com/kateberlant

Sacha Yanow is a NYC-based performance artist and actor. Her work has been presented by venues including Joe's Pub, Movement Research, New Museum and Dixon Place in NYC; PICA’s TBA Festival/Cooley Gallery in Portland, OR; Pieter in Los Angeles; The Lab in San Francisco; and Festival Theaterformen in Hanover, Germany. She has received residency support from Baryshnikov Arts Center, Denniston Hill, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, SOMA Mexico City, and Yaddo. Yanow has also performed in works by artists including Karen Finley, Laura Parnes, Katy Pyle, and Julie Tolentino, and is a member of the Dyke Division of the Theatre of a Two-Headed Calf. She is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the William Esper Studio Actor Training Program. Yanow’s new solo performance Cherie Dre will premiere in NYC in Fall 2018.www.sachayanow.com

Dr. Johnathan NewmanDr. Jonathan Newman, Pop Psych guru to the stars and lover of life, grew up in New Paltz, NY but now living large in beautiful Mar Vista, California. Newman was raised by a single mom and five sisters, so yes, brother, he is a feminist! Newman began his career as an on-campus therapist at the University of Michigan. Go Wolverines! Later, he moved to Culver City, California and opened his own practice, where he amassed a celeb clientele, becoming a very successful life coach to the stars. Newman volunteers at the local cat rescue and referees Backgammon tournaments in the inner-city public schools, homebrews his own Kombucha, plays the electric flute, has a great passion for magic and martial arts, especially Tai Chi. Newman’s a modern jazz enthusiast, avid collector of Asian pottery, tapestries and swords, and is a competitive aquarium hobbyist. After a long day, Newman enjoys a fine glass of rosé while practicing his favorite instrument, the rainstick.

Selene Luna(pronounced, s uh – l EH – n eh) stars as the voice of tía Rosita in Disney-Pixar’s, COCO (Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe Awards’ Winner: Best Animated Feature), the first ever All-Latino cast in major movie studio history. A trail-blazing little person in the entertainment world, Selene Luna, at 3’10″, is a small package with very big presence known for her role in Lionsgate’s feature, MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D, and cult favorites, GINGERDEAD MAN 3: SATURDAY NIGHT CLEAVER and DEMONIC TOYS 2: PERSONAL DEMONS. Luna’s notable TV appearances include CELEBRITY WIFE SWAP, CELEBRITY FAMILY FEUD and Margaret Cho‘s Vh1′s THE CHO SHOW – a performance that landed Luna a nomination for MTV LOGO’s NewNowNext: Brink of Fame: Comic Award. To date, Luna has written and performed six original one-woman shows, most recently Born to Be Alive, produced by the Lily Tomlin/Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center. Luna’s stand-up comedy has led her to work alongside comedy legends Roseanne Barr and Robin Williams. Luna’s proudest stand-up comedy credit has been opening Margaret Cho’s national tour. Most recently, Luna toured with the UNITED COLORS OF COMEDY standup comedy show.IG: selene_lunaTwitter: @selenelunaFB: facebook.com/SeleneLunaShow

"The variety show seems to be a dying form of entertainment in America, but Jibz Cameron has brought it back in wildly outlandish style with her aptly titled Weirdo Night, an unpredictable roundup of performance artists, comedians, poets and other oddballs from the island of misfit toys." - LA WEEKLY

Dreams do come true! Je suis performing in PeeTown!

Tuesday, September 12, 2017 – 9:30 PMThe Art House, Provincetown

Dynasty Handbag's unfortunately titled new falling-apart stand-up show is a current events review of her privates and her publics, covering topics such as nothing is the same since you know what but everything is the same since you know who - white women having babies and how this makes her feel enraged/grossedout/inadequate, a cover of Rihannas well-known blue-collar anthem celebrating the proletariat and an analysis of coyote discrimination in relationship to the Hollywood desert nightmare that is now a metaphor for complete global destruction. Show is updated to include horrible current event jokes. Day of show events even.

I, An Moron Returns to Joe's Pub!

Dynasty Handbag's unfortunately titled new falling-apart stand-up show is a current events review of her privates and her publics, covering topics such as nothing is the same since you know what but everything is the same since you know who - white women having babies and how this makes her feel enraged/grossedout/inadequate, a cover of Rihannas well-known blue-collar anthem celebrating the proletariat and an analysis of coyote discrimination in relationship to the Hollywood desert nightmare that is now a metaphor for complete global destruction. Show is updated to include horrible current event jokes. Day of show events even.

Thursday, August 31st9:30 PMJoe's Pub at the Public Theater25 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10003

Sorry about my president! Also...

Dynasty Handbag's unfortunately titled new falling-apart stand-up show is a current events review of her privates and her publics, covering topics such as nothing is the same since you know what but everything is the same since you know who - white women having babies and how this makes her feel enraged/grossedout/inadequate, a cover of Rihannas well-known blue-collar anthem celebrating the proletariat and an analysis of coyote discrimination in relationship to the Hollywood desert nightmare that is now a metaphor for complete global destruction. Show is updated to include horrible current event jokes. Day of show events even.

Nao Bustamante is an internationally known artist, originally from California; she now resides in Los Angeles. Bustamante's precarious work encompasses performance art, video installation, visual art, filmmaking and writing. The New York Times says, "She has a knack for using her body." Bustamante has presented in galleries, museums, universities and underground sites all around the world. She has exhibited, among other locales, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the New York Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sundance International Film Festival, Outfest International Film Festival, El Museo del Barrio Museum of Contemporary Art, First International Performance Biennial, Deformes in Santiago, Chile and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. She was also an unlikely contestant on TV network, Bravo's "Work of Art: The Next Great Artist." In 2001 she received the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman fellowship and in 2007 named a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, as well as a Lambent Fellow. In 2008, she received the Chase Legacy award in Film, which was in conjunction with Kodak and HBO. And was the Artist in Residence of the American Studies Association in 2012. In 2013, Bustamante was awarded the short-term CMAS-Benson Latin American Collection Research Fellowship and also a Makers Muse Award from the Kindle Foundation. In 2014-15, Bustamante was the Queer Artist in Residence at UC Riverside and, in 2015, she was a UC MEXUS Scholar in Residence in preparation for a solo exhibit at Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles. Bustamante’s video work is in the Kadist Collection. Bustamante is alum of the San Francisco Art Institute, New Genres program and the Skowhegen School of Painting and Sculpture. Currently, she holds the position of Associate Professor and Vice Dean of Art at the USC Roski School of Art and Design. For information about upcoming events, like: www.facebook.com/naobustamantehttp://www.naobustamante.com/

Brontez Purnell is the author of the cult zine “Fag School,” Cruising Diaries, the frontman for his band “The Younger Lovers,” and founder of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company (BPDC). Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!, his other collaborations include an ensemble role in the queer independent feature film, “I Want Your Love” (Dir. Travis Mathews, 2012), and dancing for local artist-choreographers Amara Tabor-Smith, Keith Hennessy, Eric Kupers, and Nina Haft, and South African artist-choreographer Athi-Patra Rugra. Since founding BPDC in 2010, Purnell has presented his original dance and movement theatre works at the Berkeley Art Museum, CounterPULSE, the Garage, Kunst-Stoff Arts, the Lab, and SOMArts. With cinematographer Gary Fembot Gregerson and lighting designer Jerry Lee, Purnell produced, choreographed, and scored “Free Jazz” (2012), a 8mm B&W dance film documenting “various dance parties, structured improvs, rituals and happenings” performed by BPDC between 2010 and 2012, which has been shown internationally. He was a guest curator for the Berkeley Art Museum’s L@TE program in 2012, awarded an invitation to the 2012 Radar Lab queer arts summer residency, honored by Out Magazine’s 2012 Hot 100 List and 2013 Most Eligible Bachelors List, and most recently won the 2014 SF Bay Guardian’s Goldie for Performance/Music. He earned a B.F.A. in Theatre and Contemporary Dance at California State University, East Bay.

alernate Brontez bio:Brontez Purnell is a writer (The Cruising Diaries, Johnny Would You Love Me If My Dick Were Bigger, Since I Laid My Burden Down) musician (The Younger Lovers) and choreographer (Brontez Purnell Dance Company). He resides in Oakland California and despite being a horny gay dude, he is somehow disgusted by the site/smell of semen.

Heather Jewett is a writer and comedic performer from Los Angeles. Known for her outlandish characters, standup, and for fronting the queer electro punk group Gravy Train!!!!, Heather exaggerates both the earnest and the grotesque to hilarious effect. Look for her wellness webseries, Healing with Heather, coming this fall. Heather's notorious Jerry Jergens character is a 49-year old "roast comedian" and 90s alternative rock devotee from Hoboken, NJ. During his rude and lewd act, Jerry aims only to offend, but often ends up unwittingly exploring his complex issues as an aging, fatherless male. His 90 minute shock comedy album, PASSIN' GAS?!?!, is unavailable digitally.

DANCE-Y-OKE is a dance karaoke dance party where individuals grouply dance along to music videos with great dancing in them. Video hits include Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation, Kate Bush Wuthering Heights, Aaliyah Are You That Somebody? ARE YOU!!!?????

During the Writing for a Performance Persona workshop we will explore various exercises designed to help you access deep crevasses of your personal experience that can become the driving desire behind a performance persona. The goal is not to leave the workshop with a developed piece of work, but rather to learn some new ways of accessing material within yourself. Writers, performers, dancers, drag showgirls, thinkers, visual artists all welcome!

Here are some of the activity titles (without explanations - you can just use your imagination for now):

• All about my mother• Ultimate fighting machine• Personal ad for dad• Heartbreaking singer/songwriter• I am so sick of m’self

Dynasty Handbag's new falling-apart stand-up show is a current events review of her privates and her publics. Have you ever wondered why lesbians carry their drinks in a jar? Do white women having more babies make you feel enraged/grossedout/inadequate? Did you ever hear Rihanna’s well-known blue-collar anthem celebrating the proletariat and journey with her to industrial wastelands that make up our useless garbage life? All this ANNNDDD accurate analysis of coyote discrimination in relationship to the Hollywood desert nightmare that is now a metaphor for complete global destruction. Show is updated to include horrible current event jokes. Day of show events even!

SPF is an initiative by Galerie Juliette Jongma & Kunstverein, Amsterdam, in collaboration with De Ateliers, organized by Jeanine HoflandGenerously supported by the municipality of Amsterdam; Stadsdeel Zuid

Dynasty Handbag presents a mixed handbag of "songs" which were never recorded or released, by people she never was. Hits include a muddy new-country ballad about fear of intimacy, a vaguely European new wave lezbo-bot dance jam concerning breakfast choices and capitalism, and an unfinished pill-faced hippy ode to mother earth. An imaginary lifetime—unplugged, unhinged, and uncomfortable. Expect the worst best dancing and 30 second death metal voice at some point.

Ever wondered what Dynasty Handbag looks like in the Los Angeles hellscape? No? Well she made a show about it anyway.

I, An Moron is Dynasty Handbag's new falling-apart stand-up show is a current events review of her privates and her publics, covering topics such as white women having babies and how this makes her feel enraged/grossedout/furious/inadequate, a cover of Rihanna’s well-known blue-collar anthem celebrating the proletariat and an analysis of coyote discrimination in relationship to the Hollywood desert nightmare that is now a metaphor for complete global distruction. Topical, terrible, two thousand 17.

ABOUT THE CAVERN CLUB CELEBRITY THEATERThis fantastic gem of a little theater is in the basement of the Casita Del Campo Restaurant. and listen, if you haven't been here before, now is the time mary. Come early and have a drink at the bar and a festive Mexican meal before the show! Lots of room for you and your friends, plus valet parko and chips. Also there is a fountain. Make a wish. Oops! It already came true! If you hate fun atmospheres, come and suffer!

"Her one art was histrionics of the kind that made an individual appeal."- Thesaurus.com

PUSH Festival Presents

Dynasty Handbag, I Never Were Again, A Concert

Rowdy, raunchy and queer as folk, Dynasty Handbag is a blazing stage presence. Here she presents a batch of “golden oldies”—a veritable mixtape of songs from a roster of wholly invented artists. From country ballads to Euro dance, the tunes are good for a laugh and much more besides. This is caffeinated camp—a manic, celebratory send-up of gender and performativity. … one of the funniest, tone-perfect pieces of performance art seen in years.—The New York Times

Attention! We’ve moved highlights the ongoing displacement of artists and cultural spaces by bringing audiences to a floating, itinerant version of an underground club. Created by artist Constance Hockaday, Attention! We’ve moved. will be cruising the San Francisco Bay from January 12–14 and launching from Pier 40.

Dynasty Handbag: I An, Moron presented in association with NYPAC

*NOTE! This is a NYC premier! And the show has been UPDATED for the new regime, after a SOLD OUT free premier in Los Angeles in October. VERY excited to bring this mess home to NY.

Ever wondered what Dynasty Handbag looks like in the Los Angeles hellscape? No? Well she made a show about it anyway.

I, An Moron is Dynasty Handbag's new falling-apart stand-up show is a current events review of her privates and her publics, covering topics such as white women having babies and how this makes her feel enraged/grossedout/furious/inadequate, a cover of Rihanna’s well-known blue-collar anthem celebrating the proletariat and an analysis of coyote discrimination in relationship to the Hollywood desert nightmare that is now a metaphor for complete global distruction. Topical, terrible, day two of 2017.Get tickets!

"One of the nuttiest and most brilliant artists working today" - Artillery Magazine

November 11, FRIDAY, 8 p.m.

Ace Hotel Downtown LA

929 S Broadway, LA 90015

Slash off your Halloween weekend with everyone's favorite dancing queen, LOVE CONNIE, her crew of dancing maniacs (KATIE MITCHELL, NAYLA WREN, MARK ORR & MISCHA PFISTER) and special guests, drag dream gal, CUPCAKE CANNE, giving you thrills on pointe AND beyond and the one and only DYNASTY HANDBAG showing you everything you need to see this Halloween. It's a fast-paced thrill-ride of dance numbers spoofing your favorite horror films including FRIDAY THE 13TH, PROM NIGHT, PSYCHO, EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK and BLACK SWAN!

This workshop focuses on identifying and untangling various creative blockages that prevent us from accessing our truest most inspired places. These beasts can take many forms - from blocks that are reinforced culturally to just old crap we carry around with us. Learn some new tools to get through these thorny SPIRIT blockages and move THROUGH with your ART.

And, as our cups overrunneth with information, ideas, emotions, concepts, visual wonders, memories, passions, politics, - sometimes it is hard to access these gems, let alone shape them into something that can be "seen" clearly. We will explore writing exercises to get into these conceptual file cabinets and play with what's in there.

Ali Liebegotthas published three books: The Beautifully Worthless, The IHOP Papers, and Cha-Ching! She is the recipient of two Lambda Literary Awards and a Ferro-Grumley Award. She has read and performed her work throughout the United States and Canada with the legendary queer literary tour Sister Spit. In collaboration with Michelle Tea and Elizabeth Pickens she created The RADAR LAB, a free queer writer's retreat from 2009-2013. in 2010 she took a train trip across America to interview poets for a project called The Heart has many Doors--. She currently lives in Los Angeles and writes for the Emmy Award-winning show Transparent.

Lizzy CoopermanLizzy's been featured on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, MTV, The History Channel, and The Style Network. She's been featured at the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal, Bridgetown Comedy Festival, in "Change The Ratio" at South By Southwest, The Las Vegas Comedy Festival, and Atlanta's Red Clay Comedy Festival. She's written for several shows including Adult Swim's The Eric Andre Show, The Soup TV, Style Network’s The Dish, and a show that only aired in the Ukraine & on German Comedy Central called Naked & Funny. She currently writes on Comedy Central's Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, and is one third of the comedy trio Birds of Prey, which was voted Best Sketch Group by Punchline Magazine. She's been recently recognized for the "avant-garde" films she creates on her Instagram, @avant_gram.

Here's what EVERYONE (no exceptions) is saying...

"Lizzy Cooperman's a witchy lady. In her act, she writhes around the stage like a crazy combination of Sarah Jessica Parker in Hocus Pocus and Norma Desmond. She plays morose tones on a keyboard, and punctuates her set with unhinged laughter. She's all of us, is what I'm saying, and catching her at Sunday's Depresshow at Branx between two other shows was an accidental Bridgetown highlight." - Portland Mercury

Atsuko Okatsuka is a stand up comedian, actress, and filmmaker. She is the co-founder of Dis/orient/ed Comedy, the first ever all Asian, mostly female stand up comedy tour in the U.S. They've toured Nationally to sold out shows. She has opened for Margaret Cho at the historic Wiltern and can be seen telling jokes on Comedy Central Presents: Stand Up, Asia! She can be seen on various TV shows and digital platforms that Middle America likes to watch such as America's Got Talent and Netflix and ones that they don't like so much watch like Amazon Prime and Fandor.

New Show!I, An Moron

Dynasty Handbag's new falling-apart, falling-down stand-up show that covers topics including the fact that everyone she knows is having a baby and how this makes her feel enraged and scared/inadequate, the future memory of the time when she got her Netflix special, and a cover of Rihanna's well-known blue collar anthem celebrating the proletariat. With live musical accompaniment by Taylor the Sax Bottom.

HEATHER JEWETTHeather Jewett is a writher and comedic performer who first desecrated stages fronting the queer punk band, Gravy Train!!!! She now flails wildly in beginners dance classes all over Los Angeles, in addition to trying her luck in 12-step meetings and even standup comedy. She tweets constantly to mixed results and will star in the wellness webseries "Healing with Heather", coming in 2017.

ALCIA MCDAID is a performance and video artist living in Los Angeles. She will be sharing a very special "Workout For the Recently Divorced" commemorating the 26th anniversary of the loss of her virginity to a deadhead she bought a Guatemalan bracelet from outside of a Bonnie Raitt concert who gave her 2 stds. She is currently single.

Find her on Instagram @mcdazzler++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Part ISoul crushing creative blockage defense classPart I of the workshop series focuses on identifying and untangling various creative blockages that prevent us from accessing our truest most inspired places. These beasts can take many forms – from blocks that are reinforced culturally to just old crap we carry around with us. Learn some new tools to get through these thorny SPIRIT blockages and move THROUGH with your ART.

Part IIGetting ideas out All of our cups overrunneth with information, ideas, emotions, concepts, visual wonders, memories, passions, politics, – and sometimes it is hard to access these gems, let alone shape them into something that can be “seen” clearly. Part II of our workshop series will introduce some writing exercises to get into these conceptual file cabinets and play with what’s in there.

Part IIIPhysical rubberbanding itAs a performer – we have one tool. Our brains. Just kidding. Our bodz! That means we have to practice getting out of the the mind and into the bod. Part III is about physicalizing aspects of the discoveries made in Parts I and II of the workshop. Let’s work it out!

Part IVSelf producing productionsSometimes its very difficult to find a spot to present your brilliant opususus (opusi?). Many of us don’t want to necessarily present in conventional performances spaces. Or there just simply are not enough spaces that suit our needs. Or we just can’t find something! Learn how to produce your own show. We will look at all the details of self producing in its imperfect glory: finding a space, programming a solid event, social media outreach, contracts, dealing with $, working with friends, where to buy cheapest La Croix.